Mr. Churchill, according to a British Wireless' message, replied ith an exhaustive analysis of the dustrial situation. Dealing with the suggestion made by Mr. Clynes that this country should resume re-Nations with Russia as a means of reducing unemployment, he declared that anyone who supposed that readmission of the Soviet Embassy to this Island would make the slightest contribution to the problem of unemployment was Teading himself and would mislead others, It was very easy, he went on, to say that the present industrial situation was the fault of the Government, but it was far easier to say, and easier to prove, that a large part of it was the fault of the Labour Party. Had Mr. Clynes forgotten the general strike and the prolonged coal stoppage 1926? Through these we had been thrown back two or three years behind the onward march of other' nations. The reserves of the State' toward misfortune had been grievously impaired. Had the Labour:
Party not admitted their responsibility? Had there not been efforts fon the part of responsible leaders of Labour to establish a different and saner policy? Were not Communists being excluded from La-hour Party polities? Was not Russian interference being repulsed in Jdomestic affairs? Was not Mr.
Cook, who led the miners in 1926, being discredited? These signs of amendment were welcome, but they were too late. The price of 1996 had to be paid,
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